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Subject: Re: Hardware Spec for new chess computer

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:19:02 11/18/04

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On November 18, 2004 at 21:55:34, Dai Davies wrote:

>Thank you Mike.
>
>I tend to upgrade around every 4-5 years, or when the old kit starts feeling a
>little tired.
>
>It looks then like Athlon is preferred for all chess engines, and specificaly
>the A64 as I will be likely to keep this pc for several years.
>
>Out of curiosity: a database such as chessbase, which is optimised for
>hyper-threading, would the average search time on otherwise comparable
>processors, such as Athlon A64/Pentium 4 HT vary significantly in regard to the
>A64 not being HT Enabled?
>
>Is it perhaps a 10% region difference in search times or something far greater?
>
>Is the difference likely to be of any significance at all in Human v. Computer
>games?
>
>Would you know how important it is to have a hard disk with very fast access
>times: for instance scsi?
>
>Sorry for so many questions: just trying to get the basics straight before I
>order.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Mark.

I wish I could help - I do not have the answers to the questions you are asking.



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